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This site highlights the appearances, performances and productions of a select group of Montreal-based burlesque performers - including Team Burlesque founding members L. Diablo, Miss Sugarpuss and Seska Lee.
Many of us work as independents while others belong to specific troupes. What we have in common is a desire to make Montreal's burlesque scene a vibrant and diverse one.
We also would like to encourage other Montreal performers and troupes so you will see their events and activities listed in our News section. Our offfical Team Burlesque events as well as those events in which Team Burlesque members are participating can be found both in the News section and in the Events section.
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Fall Shows Announced!!
There are a bevy of burlesque shows coming your way Montreal!
First, up DeAnne Smith's Stand Up Strip Down - a mix of stand-up comedy and burlesque performance. We are told a few drag kings will be in on the action too. It all goes down on Thursday September 11th at Theatre Ste-Catherine (264 Ste-Catherine). Show at 8pm and tickets are $10.
Next we have Team Burlesque's official fall shows at MainLine Theatre (3997 St-Laurent). 3 months and 3 fabulous shows featuring L. Diablo, Miss Sugarpuss, Seska Lee and friends. It all begins with The Back-To-School-Tacular on Friday, September 12th. These crazy shenanigans will be followed by the Spooky Spooktacular Two on October 24th and Sacré Burlesque: Le French Spectacle-Ular on November 21st. Show begins at 11pm and tickets are $10.
The beautiful guys and gals at Blue Light Burlesque will also be putting ona series of shows this Fall. You can find them at Petit Campus (57 Prince Arthur). Their soirées will offer the public a tasty cocktail of classic numbers and new favourites. Featuring surprise special guest stars, invited artists from Canada and the United States, and our infamous shimmy contests! Dates are September 24th (media opening - limited tickets available), October 15th, November 12th, and December 10th. Tickets are $20 plus service charge. Doors open at 7pm and the show begins at 8pm. Join in on the fun and dress up for the show (sexy evening wear highly encouraged)
Team Burlesque to Perform at Michelle Boback's 'Music - Burlesque - Gin' Soirée
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Le Social (1445 Bishop, Montreal)
10pm
$8
Team Burlesque to Perform at Shazamfest
Team Burlesque will be heading to the great outdoors for Shazamfest - a festival of music and culture in beautiful Way's Mill's Quebec. Miss Sugarpuss, L Diablo and Seska Lee will take to the stage Saturday August 2nd at 12:30am (technically Sunday).
L Diablo Performs Tonight at the Toronto Burlesque Festival
L Diablo will be performing tonight at the Opening Gala of the Toronto Burlesque Festival.
Friday July 11th,
2008
Doors at 9pm / Show at 9:30pm
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen st. West
$30
Team Burlesque Co-Founder L Diablo to Perform at Toronto Burlesque Festival
L Diablo will be performing at the Opening Gala of the Toronto Burlesque Festival.
Friday July 11th, 2008
Doors at 9pm / Show at 9:30pm
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen st. West
$30
Team Burlesque Performed at the Montreal Fringe Festival's 13th Hour
Team Burlesque members Miss Sugarpuss and Seska Lee opened the 13th Hour's Zombie party with a variation of a number Seska Lee perfomed at the Spookyspooktacular in October 2007. The organizers of the Montreal Fringe captured it on video.
Team Burlesque Mentioned in the Montreal Gazette
Riding the burlesque wave
Art form is 'massive globally' and at local fest
PAT DONNELLY, The Gazette
Published: Thursday, June 19
Burlesque is back.
Not just at the Montreal Fringe Festival, which is celebrating the art form tonight at 10 at Club Coda with The Summer Games: Bingo Edition, presented by Team Burlesque, but around the world.
So says Fringe general manager Patrick Goddard. It all started to happen in the late '90s at loft parties in New York, he explained: "It spread out from there. It's absolutely massive globally. I saw tons of that kind of work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year."
He and Fringe producer Jeremy Hechtman produced their own take, Johnny Canuck and the Last Burlesque, in 2006.
But the Fringe's first real burlesque show was Miss Sugar Puss's Burley-que Revue, in 2005, he said. That was the beginning of Team Burlesque, which has been a resident company at the Mainline Theatre, the festival's home digs, over the past year. "It's great to be able to say, 'I run a theatre where we have our own burlesque troupe in residence,' " Goddard said.
Team Burlesque Co-Founder Performs in The Dragpiper at Montreal Fringe Festival
Come see Seska Lee in a special role in The Dragpiper - a play about a quest in high heels where two spirited lipstick prophets tell secrets while Celtic hearts and blaring pipes escort you down the lost highway.
photo by DannyGirl
Photography
Saturday
June 14th 22h30
Sunday June 15th 20h45
Tuesday June 17th 22h15
Thursday June 19th 13h30
Friday June 20th 17h30
Saturday June 21st 22h30
$9 + $2
(service fee)
$6 + $2 (service fee) for those 16 and under with ID
Venue 10 Theatre La Chapelle (3700 St-Dominque)
Team Burlesque Friends from Boston at Montreal Fringe Festival
Team Burlesque friends Big Moves are the only produing and training organization in the USA dedicated to creating high quality multi genre dance productions featuring performers of all sizes. They will be in Montreal performing their muscial comedy Lard (like grease bu thicker).
Saturday
June 14th 22h30
Sunday June 15th 20h45
Tuesday June 17th 22h15
Thursday June 19th 13h30
Friday June 20th 17h30
Saturday June 21st 22h30
$9 + $2
(service fee)
$6 + $2 (service fee) for those 16 and under with ID
Venue 10 Theatre La Chapelle (3700 St-Dominque)
